On Friday 17 August 2001 05:19 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Okay, I'm about to reinstall my Mandrake system off of my 7.2 cds and
> I'd like to hear people's recommendations on partition sizes and any

> / 250MB
> /swap 200MB
> /usr 10 Gig
> /home 9.55 Gig approximately (whatever's left after the others)

   How to allocate partitions can get to be a holy war of opinions. So 
here's mine.  200mb /swap is fine.  For a single user, put all of / in 
one 10g partition, and use the last 10g as a storage partition, eg 
/stor. You can then keep regular backups of your /home partition and 
other stuff (mp3, jpg, etc.) in /stor.

   Here's my reasoning. No matter how well thought out multiple 
partition schemes are under /, there's a good chance that actual use is 
gonna fill up one, and not the others. Putting everything all in one 
big / partition eliminates this.
-- 
Tom Brinkman                       Galveston Bay

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